Author: Mary Elizabeth O'Brien

Explores the relationship between spirituality and the practice of nursing, providing students and professionals with invaluable insights from a variety of perspectives. Topics include nursing assessment of patients' spiritual needs, the nurse's role in the provision of spiritual care, the spiritual nature of the nurse-patient relationship, the spiritual history of the nursing profession, and contemporary interest in spirituality within the nursing profession.

Table of Contents 

Chapter  1  Spirituality in Nursing: Standing on Holy Ground
Chapter  2  A Spiritual History of Nursing
Chapter  3  Nursing Assessment of Spiritual Needs
Chapter  4  A Middle-Range Theory of Spiritual Well-Being in Illness
Chapter  5  The Nurse–Patient Relationship: A Sacred Covenant
Chapter  6  Spiritual Care: The Nurse’s Role
Chapter  7  Spiritual Needs of the Patient with an Acute Illness
Chapter  8  Spiritual Needs of the Chronically Ill Person
Chapter  9  Spiritual Needs of Children and Families
Chapter  10  Spiritual Needs of the Older Adult
Chapter  11  Spiritual Well-Being and Quality of Life at the End of Life
Chapter  12  Spiritual Needs in Death and Bereavement
Chapter  13  Parish Nursing: Caregiving within a Faith Community
Chapter  14  Spiritual Needs in Mass Casualty Disasters
Chapter  15  The Spirituality of Servant Leadership In Nursing

©2011, 432 pages.